This is a superb opportunity, offering you the chance to apply your legal expertise with Phoenix - the UK’s largest Closed Life & Pension Fund Consolidator. We are a member of the FTSE 250 index, with a premium listing on the LSE, over 6.1 million policyholders and assets under management of more than £74 billion.

Based in Life Legal and reporting to one of the Life Legal leadership team, your role will act as a Life Legal transactional lawyer and negotiator for bulk purchase annuities on behalf of Life Legal. On a day to day basis, this will involve:

To provide legal advice to senior members of the Life companies with the primary focus on bulk annuity transactions, including but not limitedrestructuring of key assets and new investments that are required for the bulk annuity business.

To lead on the legal workstream for all bulk annuity work.

To ensure the achievement of outcomes and deliver against deadlines; taking ownership of such delivery by influencing key stakeholders, advisers and governance bodies

To lead negotiations on behalf of Legal providing detailed updates to the Director of Life Legal and discuss a joint approach with him

To identify and mitigate risks within transactions

As Senior Legal Advisor, you must be qualified and have a strong financial services background – with relevant exposure to Life & Pensions and Bulk Purchase Annuity deals ideally gained in-house but private practice experience will also be considered if you have focused on FS – who can demonstrate:

Proven transactional record with responsibility for leading Bulk Purchase Annuity transactions

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Flexible working at Phoenix is: "A lifestyle that fuses your personal and professional life."

Phoenix believes in a culture of flexibility, depending on the role we may be able to offer working arrangements that suit your needs. In today's world of work / life challenges we recognise getting this right is important to our employees and the success of our business.

Examples of this may include but are not exclusive to the following:

Part Time: You would work less than full-time hours for the business, perhaps by working fewer days or hours per week.Flexible hours: Still working your contracted hours, you would have flexibility to start and finish within agreed core working times.Job Share: Where the role allows you would voluntarily share the duties of one full-time position with another colleague, splitting the hours on a pro-rata basis.Home working: You would undertake some, or all, of your working duties from home or anywhere else other than the standard allocated place of work (including other Phoenix locations).

If you have any difficulties with your application, please email the Resourcing Team at resourcing@thephoenixgroup.com

Careers at Phoenix

We value our employees highly and are always looking for new professionals to join our talented team. Our funds are closed, enabling us to focus on areas that other businesses can't. This means that, among the many benefits of working at Phoenix (such as our breathtaking Wythall location, our central London office overlooking St Paul's Cathedral and excellent rewards scheme), our staff can enjoy exposure to a diverse workload not found elsewhere. We're proud of what we do, and we've recently gained recognition for our distinctive business model. Based on our excellent training opportunities, career development and company culture, we've been included in the Britain's Top Employers 2014 Index.